Yay? **Ducks tomatoes and other rotten fruit thrown by the HandBrake team.**

Ever since I understood that the nightlies are pretty stable and have new features added all the time, I've stopped relying on the stable version for anything. Especially because if ever a bug report gets posted, we have to post the log from a nightly instead.

Is there any chance we could get a rolling stable release instead of a point release? Maybe this is more applicable to Ubuntu and its PPA setup rather than the WIndows or Mac versions.

I may be talking crazy here, so just ignore my nonsense.

Let me say though that I love watching the timeline to see what new features and changes are implemented by the HandBrake team. Man, you guys are dedicated and talented! Thank you again for such a wonderful product!

I noticed detelecine went from default to off on the high profile. Was this intentional, and if so why? I seem to remember when I read up on it a while back it was recommended to set it to default, hence it being that way in the preset.

Thanks for your answer, I realise the MKV standard is complex and you're not the only party involved. Personally I don't understand anything of it, I'm just extremely thankful someone who has a clue is taking care of business.

I am a noob, so please be kind. I used MakeMKV to create MKV files for 2 movies I own. The movie is 300 and one is a Blu-Ray and one is a DVD (widescreen). I selected High Profile preset for both. Both play fine on my Win 7 PC, but only the Blu-ray version can stream to either my Xbox360 or my GTV. I tried messing with the presets for the DVD, but could not find a combo that allowed me to stream the resulting file. Is there a known problem with this particular DVD? I'll try a different DVD tomorrow.

Hey there. I am running Mac OSX 10.6.8 and Handbrake notified me of an update to which I in turn submitted. However, afterward it said I could not open this application on this "type of mac". Is this a 32-bit vs. 64-bit issue (I am assuming this was a 64-bit release and I'm not capable of booting 64-bit)? And will there be anymore support for the 32-bit users?

Thanks for the reply. If that's the case, then how was I able to use all previous builds/updates? Did 32-bit users switch to 64-bit in one full swoop over the summer? Maybe not trying to be a [Censored], but you sounded like one.

Apples lineup switched to 64bit processors back in late 06, early 07. Starting from 0.9.6 onwards, 5+ years later, we started providing only 64bit builds. I'm guessing you are currently on 0.9.5 which was the last build we published a 32bit update for.

This is a small open source project. We focus what little resources we have on the majority and don't worry so much about legacy.

Hi, Handbreake is a wonderfull software. But i missed the function for a concret viedeo size in the new version. Only "constant quality" and "average bitrate" are avalible. These function is very importend for me. Now i download the old version.But why handbreake loose these function?Greetz @ all.

99 times out of 100, that phrase means, "I have absolutely no dependency on that feature, other than I'm used to using it", in which case our response is, "well get used to this newer, better feature instead", namely constant quality.

99 times out of 100, that phrase means, "I have absolutely no dependency on that feature, other than I'm used to using it", in which case our response is, "well get used to this newer, better feature instead", namely constant quality.

Why do you use target file size over one of the other two options?

I ripped all my scifi series and 1 gb is a perfect size for one. and its in the end better to calculate how many sessions i can safe on my harddisk. Or other example, on many harddisk formations can get it problems if the file are bigger then 4 GB. In conclusion, i will know how big the file in the end is befor I start the compression.

So there's no hard and fast rule like, "this episode needs to fit on a disk that's 1GB"? Assuming you're talking about 45-minute episodes here, you could get pretty much the exact same results by typing 3000 in the average bitrate field. And if you encode a 22-minute episode (half the length) it'll come out at half the size.

That's if you really care about being able to manage file size. Personally I equate worrying about file size to worrying about the thickness of the books you buy for a bookshelf, so you know how many books you can fit on it. Nobody does that.

(Still assuming DVDs here) if you use the quality setting, unless your videos are really grainy, your episodes will almost certainly come out smaller than 1GB each, with imperceptible quality loss from if you'd used target file size.

Ok we want no so much write to this topic. But the importent question is. Why this option deleted? I like the option, i want that all my episode are in the same size because i want it so. looks better by 2000 files, or i wanted perfect for a stick or or or, but anyway. I red in the forum it give a excel to calculate. ok but why can Handbreake, one of the nicest and best programs i ever saw, this not longer. Some People like these function and we can speak long why and why not. It would be very nice if these function come back. So long i use the old version . thx4theseTOOL:)